Apparatus for carbonating and delivering liquids.



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A. BIRNIE & C. W.,('1`AY. .APPARATUS FOR CARBONATING AND DELIVEBING LIQUIDS.

' (Application led May 14, 1900.) (N o M o d e I A y y UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE.

ALFRED lllRNlE, OF SPRINGFELD, AND CHAUN( EY \V. GAYf-OF vVFlb'T l' SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

APPARATUS FOR CARBONATING AND DELIVERING LIQUIDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 6

'Y'lnlgQtZ` dated May 21, 1901.

Application tiled May 14,1900. bcrial No. 16,581. (No modele To irl/um, it Tmty coll/ecru:

15e it known that we, ALFRED BIRNIE, a resident of Springfield, and CHAUNCEY V. GAY, a resident of Test Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, citizens of the United States of America, have invented certain new and useful Improvemen ts in Apparatus for Carbonating Liquids and Delivering Same,of which the following is'a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is tol provide a bottle or like receptacle for water or other liquids to be carbonated and appliances for use in conjunction therewith, so that as desired the water may be impregnated with the carbonieacid gas and so that at any time desired any portion of the carbonated water or other`4 liquid may be withdrawn without liberating the gas from the bottle which remains therein impregnated in the portion of the contents of the bottle which may not have been withdrawn. In'other words, the object is to insure that however little of the liquid may remain in the bottle after some thereof has been withdrawn'such remaining portion of the liquid will be of the same effervescent quality as that first withdrawn.

'lo these ends the invention consists in the combinations of'parts and appliances,all substantially as hereinafter fully described, and setforth in the claims.

The improved carbonating apparatus is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which the figure is a central vertical sectional view of the same.

In the drawing, A represents a bottle for water or other liquid desired to be carbonated, the same having applied at the month end c thereof the metallic chambered part B, having a screw-thread engagement, as seen at b, with the mouth portion of the bottle` proper, having the intermediate enlargement or hollow bulb-like portion d, terminating at the ends opposite that screw engaging with the bottle neck in the externally-screwthreaded axial lhub-like part f. has an entrance-opening, fittedin which is a plug or stopper g, provided with an ontwardly-extending spur h and one or more minute passages 't' t, leading from the outer end of the plug g to communicate with the This part f tube j,which is screw-engaged with the inner end portion of the plug and extends centrally and axially through the enlargement d and well into the interior of the bottle proper, A.

7a represents a packing of annular form fitted in the opening or passage through the portionf of the metallic appliance B, which is provided as an extension of' and may be understood as a po rtion of the bottle,althou gli for purposes of practicability this portion B is made separately and preferably of metal and screw-connected with the bottle, which will be usually of glass.

D represents a suitably massive and substantial or stable base, having therein the upwardly-opening socket E, of considerable depth, as shown, and having in the orifice of said socket the internal sere\\'threads m, screw-engaging with which are the external screw-threads of the aforesaid hub-like portionfof the metallic appliance provided as au extension of the neck of the bottle. The said socket E is shaped and adapted for the reception therein of a capsule at, containing carbonio-acid gas under suitable compres- I sion. The capsule is of bulb or pear form, with its end which is to be pierced for the Vliberation of the gas uppermost. The appliance B is provided with a cock )1,closing the passage o, which when the valve t is forced open is opened for the passage of the liquid from the bottle through the downv.'ardlydi" rected nozzle u.

The operation of the improved appliances will be now explained. The bottle having been filled with pure water or other liquid which it is desired shall be carbonated, which lling is performed by the removalof' the appliance B from the neck of the bottle, said appliance being thereafter replaced, the capsule .fr is dropped and sunk into the socketE therefor in the base-support I). The bottle having as a part thereof the said enlargement l5, provided with the equipments before referred to, is by the threaded portion f screwed down into the orifice ol' the socket in the base, forcibly carrying the spur to pierce the upper end of the capsule, whereby the gas therein IOO contained under compa-rnlively great presllc-ducts t' 1l into the extension -tube vJ and issues from the upper end thereof and thoroughly commingles withA and impregnates the liquid With which the bottle is quite or .partially filled, as the casemay be.

It will be apparent that the base D constitutes a sui`ciently stable support forth'e iu` verted bottle and that the downwardly-dtrected lnozzle u has its position at such a height above, the bottom of t'he base that a glass resting on the sametable or support with the base, suitably adjacent the latter, may receive therein the carbonated liquid by inwardly pressing the knob-like end of the stem of the valve z5. y

It wil-l be manifest from Athe construction and arrangement of the parts and the capabilities thereof for utilization that the portion of the liquid Withdrawn from the bottle is carbonated in the same degree as the portion :remaining in the bottle and that the re; maining portion remains carbonated and is without deterioration in respect of its eervescence until .Withd rawn, whether the With' ployed wherein the gas introduced from the 'capsule for the impregnation of the liquid has been performed by the piercing of the capsule and permitting the gas to reach the interior of the bottle audit-s contents through a tube; bui in such an apparatus it has been necessary when desired to use the contents to first secure the exhaustion of the greater part of the. gas from the bottle ,Without th'eI withdrawal of' the liquid and then to pour the liquid, remaining partially carbonated, out through the mouth proper ofthe bottle. This has necessitated for fairly satisfactory re' suits the utilization of all of the contents of the bottle at one pouring; but as dependent upon the new arrangements and combinations of parts and appliances making up this invention as much or as little of the liquid maybe withdrawn at any time or' times as 'may be desired, and such liquid so Withdrawn is charged with the gas to the maximum dcffree. D

.with the part which screw-engages into the While we regard the enlarged or bulb-like strictly thereto, nor necessarily to separable formations of parts ofthe bottle proper, A, and the portion or'extension thereof equipped orifice of the socket in the. base and with the downwardly-directed valve-nozzle.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

' l. In an apparatus of the' A character described, the combination with the base D having the upwardly-opening socket Efor the reception thereinof a gas-containing capsule, and having its orifice internally screw-thread ed, of the bottle having a substantially closed hollow neck extension the'extremity of which is externally screw-threaded to screw-engage in the orifice of said socketl and having a minnte gas duct or ducts leading into the inte rior of the bottle, provided with'` the downwardly-.ntending spur h and saidineck extension being provided with the-laterally-located downwardly-turned, passaged nozzle u 8o the lower end of Which is suitably above the bottom of ,the base, and a valve forl normally closing the. passage through saidx nozzle, substantially as described.

`2. In -an .apparatus of the character described, in combination, the bottle proper A having the appliancev B constituting a neck extension -of the bottle, one end of which screw-engages the bottle,and the other end portion f of which is Iformed hub-like and eX- ternally screwthreaded, .and provided with the plug or stopper section g constructed with the downwai'dly-eidsending1 spur h and with the upwardly-,leading-gas"ductor ducts t', t', the tubej provided yto the partg, and rising 95 therefrom into the inverted bottle, with which said ducts com-m unicate,`said neck extension moreover being provided withlthe laterallylocated, downwardly-turnednozzle u .having the valved passage o therethrough, and the ybase D having. the deep capsulereceivingY socket E, Within the orice of which are the screw-threads for they engagement therewith of, the saidhub-like vportion f of 4the bottleneck ext'ension, all substantially as and for 105.

the purposes set forth.

Signed by us at Springfield, Massachusetts, this 26th day of March, 190 0,

' ALFRED BIRNIE. CHAUNCEY GAY. W'itne'sses WM. S. BnLLoWs, A. W. SMITH.

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